Angela’s Epistles

The Gap Year

Angela’s Epistles Book 1

by Rita Kruger

Genre: SciFi LGBT Romance

Angela Wright might have everything her father’s money can buy, but that
meant nothing to her on the night of her twenty-eight birthday. She
is angry and a little bit drunk as she flees the scene of a fight
with her mother.

All her life she has done the right thing. But she is tired of living
under her mother’s shadow. How can she ever compete with Margaret
Wright, the first Human judge on the Intergalactic High Court?

Within the space of a few days, Angela drops out in the last semester at
Intergalactic Bureau of Investigation Academy, signs a bounty hunting
contract to find the top ten criminals in the galaxy, and kisses
Brenda, her best friend since childhood.

Angela Wright is new to bounty hunting, and on her way to find Nuremburg, a
cop-killer. She is also new to Uranus. And to loving a woman. She
thinks she’s doing rather well, for a late bloomer.

She learns that Uranus’ has a nickname. “Black widow.” Interesting
Creatures. An underground where the resistance live in squalor. And a
box with journals and pictures from her father, Winston James Wright.

Only, he died when she was six years old.

Meanwhile on Earth, a stalker rears his head. His has his eyes and mind on
Angela’s girlfriend, Bren.

Maybe blooming isn’t really what she thought it would be. Or maybe it is
just that everyone else had a head start.

Finally Angela tastes success in as a bounty hunting. The Top Ten list of
worst criminals was changing because of what she did. Having
conquered her new career, she now turned her mind to new endeavours.

Bren, her girlfriend, was still plagued by a stalker, and the police was
not helping much.

Angela starts to read her father’s journals, at last. He speaks about a
betrayal. They are also filled with concern for the atrocities that
was happening on Uranus. Therefore she sets forth to rescue her
brother from the Black Widow (Uranus). She has a brilliant scheme, a
map, and just in case, a Plan B.

But can she leave Uranus untouched? Will its darkness touch her? Will
she, and the team of people who are gathering, be able to get to the
stalker before he gets to Bren?

The attack on Bren unleashes all kinds of trouble in Angela’s life.
With Bren and Angelo both in hospital, she is almost living there.
Heading for a nervous breakdown, she is able to get them both in one
room, with a guard outside. And an extra bed for herself.

In the middle of this she needs to find answers. What really happened on
the night Bren was attacked? Where did she go? And why did she make
those calls to Bren?

No, WHO made those calls to Bren?

Prof Linden and the top students go through Bren’s case file and find
some irregularities. Evidence is missing. The police investigation is
going nowhere. All fingers point to the stalker being a policeman.
Soon the Intergalactic Bureau of Investigation takes over. Can they
find the truth?

And Margaret wants the journals her father wrote for her. She is willing
to take Angela to court.

Life after the attack on Bren is hard on our relationship. Her walls are
up so high I cannot reach her. But I know it’s not only the attack.
I lied to her. Everything between us is tainted.

Angelo has found love! I’m happy to have my brother here.

Only, he isn’t my brother, is he?

The board members of Search International is having a party. Only, it
turns into the worst idea ever. I should have expected that for them.
Anyway. The new target on the International Bureau of Investigation’s
Top Ten list is Identity Thief. Which means I have to go to the bank
right after the party to ensure my money is protected properly.

And then the hunt starts.

Can I find a way to reach Bren in her tower of pain? How deep does the
investigation into the mining atrocities in her father’s journals
go? And what other secrets will he share with her? Will Margaret
change her mind about wanting the journals? And can Angela find the
Identity Thief before he finds her?

Follow the escapades of Angela, Bren and the people they love. This time
Angela has to face enemies from within and without. But can she do
this without the support of her lover, Bren, who had always been the
rock on which she could stand?

Margaret, her mother, is still fighting her around every corner.

Added to this is a trusted friend that turns into an enemy.

The Identity Thief seems like a walk in the park in the middle of
Angela’s storms. But will she ever find this elusive criminal?

What new secrets will her father’s journal reveal? Can she heal the damage
to her relationship with Bren before it is too late? Can she survive
in a world filled with people that want to kill her?

Rita Kruger lives in Vereeniging, South Africa. She is wife,
granddaughter, daughter, mother, and grandmother. Most of childhood
happened within the pages of books. Stories conspired to carry her
away from the world she knew. The places and people books introduced
her to were much more exciting than her boring existence.

Currently married to her personal MacGyver, she surrounds herself with what
enriches her body, mind and soul. Family. Friends. Nature. Great
food. Good wine. Mountains of books. She writes novels challenging
major themes of her life in the genres of fantasy and gothic horror,
which she loves.